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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen wrote an article back in 1990 that shocked people all over the world because it suggested that the common assumption that women make up half of the population is wrong. In the article, titled More than 100 million women ...The Statesman, 3 days ago

An enviable ensemble of academics — led by Amartya Sen and belonging to iconic institutes like MIT, University College London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine — will now help set up and shape Bengal’s first Institute of Public Health.

|Duration: 47 min, 39 sec In this special edition of 'We The People', Nobel laureate Amartya Sen warns against a "pattern" in RSS members being appointed to key educational and cultural institutions. He also counters arguments that people like him ...

For a public intellectual, who professes to have internalised Rabindranath Tagore's worldview, Amartya Sen's refusal to accept that he has miserably failed in shaping and nurturing the one project entrusted to him, shows his own diminishing ...

Nobel Laureate economist, Amartya Sen expressed scepticism about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's idea of secularism on Tuesday asserting he would like to see "more action" in reaching out to the minorities.

The loyalists of right wing parties targeted Nobel laureate Amartya Sen after he criticised the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre and his replacement as the Chancellor of the Nalanda University. In a recent interview, Prof. Sen lashed out ...

Was Amartya Sen right to say the NDA has cut primary education, mid-day meals, health and ICDS budgets? He is partly right, but the extent of cuts is not as large in some cases, and some social spending cuts will be made up by states The post Amartya Sen was ...

KOLKATA: At a time when Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has criticised the central government for interfering in academia, the IIT-Kharagpur director has said that the ministry of human resource development has not created any road blocks in its ...

Kolkata, Jun 24 (PTI) West Bengal will soon have an Institute of Public Health with economist Amartya Sen and several experts from Britain and the US on its global advisory group, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today. "An Institute of Public ...